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Facts and Events
Peter Lurvey's Origins
There is a tradition in the Lurvey family that Peter Lurvey was born in Russia of Jewish descent,[2][3] based on somewhat dubious anecdotal evidence. While possible, the story is considered improbable.[4] He could well be of European descent, however, as the name Lurvey is unusual in England prior to the second half of the 18th Century.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Arthur, John Bradley and Ernest Hyde Helliwell III, "The Peter2 Lurvey Family of Essex County, Massachusetts, Maine, and Vermont', in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
Vol. 154 (Oct 2000), pp. 387-412.
Peter1 Lurvey first appears on record on 30 November 1675, one of thirteen men from Ipswich impressed in Major Samuel Appleton's company for the Narragansett Expedition in King Philip's War. He took the Oath of Allegiance in Ipswich in 1678, and was assessed for the elder's salary on 17 Nov 1679. Peter and Mary Lurvey had three children: Peter, Eliezar, and Mary
- ↑ "Peter Lurvy of Gloucester, Essex County Massachusetts and Some of his Descendants", in The Wainwright Family of Essex County Massachusetts
Updated 23 Sep 2011; accessed 4 Dec 2015 .
cites Newton, William Monrow, History of Barnard, Vermont with Family Genealogies 1761-1927, (The Vermont Historical Society, 1928), V2, pp278-9 as a source for the family tradition that Peter Lurvey was of Jewish descent, born in Archangel, Russia.
- ↑ Peter Lurvey, Memorial# 123800845, Created by: Robert DeVowe, 20 Jan 2014, in Find A Grave
accessed 4 Dec 2015.
Peter Lurvey
Birth: 1653, Archangel, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Death: unknown, Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial: Unknown
Peter Lurvey and Mary (1657 - 1761) were married about 1676.
Children born in Ipswich, Mass.: Peter Lurvey born October 19, 1679, d. 1721; .Eliezer Lurvey born March 6, 1682. Mary Lurvey born March 10, 1685.
History Of Barnard, Vermont
Lurvey Family
"The name of Lurvey is a good transliteration of the German 'Loeve' which is a common name among German Jews; and there is a tradition in the Lurvey family that the first Lurvey who emigrated to Massachusetts in the 17th century was of Jewish descent and came from Archangel in Russia. It is noticeable that many of the Lurveys have old testament names such as Reuben, Levi, Samuel, Isaac and Jacob, and that their noses tend to be aquieline." Quoted from Dr. W. A. Dewey who has remembered valuable assistance in tracing this family.
Archangel (Eng) Arkhangelsk (Russian) City and Provence.
For what its worth. Descending from this family, my ethnic DNA test showed a 1% West Asia Caucasus region and that 3% of European Jews have this. There seems that there may be truth to this story.
- ↑ Coddington, John Insley, "Bridging the Atlantic", Part 2, in The Essex Genealogist (Massachusetts). (Lynnfield, Massachusetts: Essex Society of Genealogists)
Vol. 1 (1981), p. 38.
The Ashkanzy Jews of eastern and central Europe of that time period hardly ever had family names. The Jews who had family names were the Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal. After Ferdinand and Isabella some of them made eventually made their way to England, and some came to America. Central and eastern European Jews rarely used family names until forced to do so by legislation in the late 1700s.
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